GUEST POST: I am currently in Rio de Janeiro, speaking at the 21st World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity & Metabolic Disorders – IFSO 2016. As Lee Kaplan from Harvard University reminded the audience, obesity is a disease of energy homeostasis, where everything seems to be[Read More]
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Plan Ahead to Lose Weight
There’s nothing worse for a diet than impulsive eating decisions. These often happen when we tired, agitated, or simply hungry. That’s why it makes sense to make food decisions when we are relaxed and satiated. A group of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University conducted a series of field studies[Read More]
Is Your Kitchen Clutter Making You Fat?
Behavioural scientists believe clutter directly affects our waistlines. Discover how a few changes in your kitchen could help you shift the pounds… Brian Wansink, a behavioural scientist at Cornell University in America and author of Slim By Design, has been hailed the ‘Marie Kondo of the kitchen’, showing dieters how simple[Read More]